Quotes about time

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Albert Einstein

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Sarah Dessen

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time.

Tupac Shakur

I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there’s also complete stillness; there’s no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There’s simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that’s beautiful.

Eckhart Tolle

I’ve truly been blessed. I’ve taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I’ve had to do. So I’m able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn’t.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Jack Kerouac

Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and refuses to answer questions, you will know who he is, If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All time is unreedemable.

T. S. Eliot

The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could escape a war, for they knew that such wars cannot be avoided, only postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

All excesses are inimical to nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

Hippocrates